Bloodsucking Witchcraft: An Epistemological Study of Anthropomorphic Supernaturalism in Rural Tlaxcala

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University of Arizona Press, 2019 M11 1 - 475 páginas
In the rural areas of south-central Mexico, there are believed to be witches who transform themselves into animals in order to suck the blood from the necks of sleeping infants. This book analyzes beliefs held by the great majority of the population of rural Tlaxcala a generation ago and chronicles its drastic transformation since then.

"The most comprehensive statement on this centrally important ethnographic phenomenon in the last forty years. It bears ready comparison with the two great classics, Evans-Pritchard's Witchcraft Among the Azande and Clyde Kluckhohn's Navaho Witchcraft."—Henry H. Selby
 

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Introduction
1
1 An Outline of Weathermaking Nahualism and Sorcery in Rural Tlaxcala
39
2 The Belief System and Structural Context of Bloodsucking Witchcraft in Rural Tlaxcala
54
3 The Syncretic and Historical Development of Anthropomorphic Supernaturalism in Mesoamerica
80
4 The Comparative Distribution and Definition of Witchcraft and Sorcery in Mesoamerica
117
5 Anatomy of a Bloodsucking Witchcraft Epidemic
132
Methodology and Systematic Presentation
154
The Logic of Witchcraft and Normative Expectations
209
10 Aftereffects and the Psychological Context of the Postsucking Period
302
11 The Social and Psychological Functions of Bloodsucking Witchcraft
353
12 An Epistemological Approach to the Study of Magic and Religious Supernaturalism
371
Conclusions
400
Notes
437
References Cited
447
Index
459
About the Authors
475

8 The Diagnostic and Etiological Analysis of Bloodsucking Witchcraft
226
9 Social and Psychological Manipulations and the Ex Post Facto Rationalization of the Tlahuelpuchi Complex
264

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